About HTML fonts
About HTML fonts
It is very tempting to use fancy looking fonts when
designing a web page. After all, the fancier the font the more attractive
it will be to visitors and the more likely they will be to stay
at your page once they've gotten there. Actually, the reverse is
often true.
Most people go to a web page because they are interested in the
information that is there, either an article they want to read about
something or maybe it's a product or service site that requires
them to navigate through a number of pages to find the product or
service that they are looking for.
The last thing they want to do is have to battle with the font
on the page because it is difficult to read.
There are several things that make fonts easy or hard to read and
each one is equally as important.
Fonts are made up of many properties but the most important of
these are type, size and color.
The type of font refers to how the font characters themselves are
displayed. The most common fonts are Times New Roman and Ariel because
they are the most easy to read. The reason they are the most easy
to read is because they are plain and simple.
There is nothing fancy about them as opposed to a font like, say,
Potter, which is an excellent representation of the fonts used in
the Harry Potter movie series. They may look real cool but they
are not easy to read.
Maybe for a word or two, no problem. But a whole page of Harry
Potter fonts could become a reading nightmare for a visitor to your
site.
Now, suppose your site was about Harry Potter. In that case it
would be okay to maybe have some words using that font, such as
maybe headings and the first word of each paragraph. But the majority
of your text you would still need to be in easy to read font.
This way you capture the flavor of the Harry Potter world and still
give your readers an easy to read experience.
Size is another issue about fonts. Not everybody has 20-20 vision.
You don't want the fonts on your page to be too small. If they are,
some people are going to have a difficult time reading the material
on the page.
A good size for a paragraph font is about 12 to 14 point. Headings
can be a little bigger, maybe between 16 and 20 point. By keeping
the size of your font within normal parameters you give your visitors
the best chance of an easy read of your page.
By keeping these few simple things in mind you assure your visitors
of the most pleasant experience possible when visiting your pages.
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About the Author Florie Lyn Masarate
got the flair for reading and writing when she got her first subscription
of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She had her first article
published on that same newsletter in the third grade.
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